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Mountain Herbarium,” III; Atkinson, “Three New Genera of the 
Higher Fungi"; Berry, “ Notes on the Phylogeny of Liriodendron ”; 
Cook, * Polyembryony in Ginkgo"; von Schrenk, * Root Rot at 
Apple Trees caused by Zhelephora Galaria "; and Wilcox, “ Stipa 
fassei not a good species.” 
The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for June contains the 
following articles: Kirkwood and Gies, “Chemical Studies of the 
Cocoanut, with some Notes on the Changes "— Germination ” 
Curtis, “Some Observations on Transpiration ” ; Peirce, * Forcible 
Discharge of the Antherozoids in Æsterella Cali ifornica’’; Harper, 
“ Taxodium distichum and Related Species, with Notes on some Geo- 
logical Factors influencing their Distribution”; N elson, * New 
Plants from Wyoming,” XIV; Wight, “The Genus Eritrichum in 
North America.” 
The Annals of Botany for June contains the following articles : 
Yapp, * Two Malayan ‘Myrmecophilous’ Ferns”; Ward, “On the 
Relations between Host and Parasite in the Bromes and their Brown 
Rust, Puccinia dispersa"; Hill, “On Variation in the Flowers of Cer- 
tain Species of Primula”; Copeland, * The Mechanism of Stomata Kd 
Thiselton-Dyer, “ Morphological Notes,” VII ; Farmer and Hill, “ On 
the Arrangement and Structure of the PESE Strands in Angiop- 
teris veris and some other Marattiacez "; and Fritsch, * Algological 
Notes. 
Vol. XXIII of the Zransactions of the American Microscopical Society, 
issued in May, contains the following botanical articles : Jackson, “A 
New Species of Crenothrix (C. manganifera)” ; and Bessey, “ Structure 
and Classification of the Conjugate, with a Revision of the Families 
and a Rearrangement of the North American Genera.” 
Heft 9 of Engler's Das Pflanzenreich, a volume of 438 pages, with 
numerous figures, is a revision of Myrsinacez by Mez, and bears 
date May 6, 1902. 
A revision of Conocephalus, by Bargagli-Petrucci, is a prominent 
feature of the Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano for April. 
A revision of the Podostemacez of India and Ceylon, by Willis, 
appears in Part III of the Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 
Peradeniya, issued in May. 
The laws of plant distribution in alpine regions are analyzed by 
Jaccard in Hora of April 3o. 
An interesting addition to the botany of the Atlantic islands is a 
comparative account of the mosses of the Azores, Madeira, and the 
